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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2001Catoosa County, Walker County, Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 8:36 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Walker County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2001, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 9:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold, GA	The Catoosa County 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
Jun 4, 9:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	La Fayette, GA	The Walker County 911 center reported that numerous trees were blown down.
Jun 4, 9:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalton, GA	The Whitfield County 911 center reported that some power lines were down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 050040
SVRATL

GAC047-295-313-050115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
836 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  NORTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 835 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE TO NEAR
  TILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  VARNELL...TUNNEL HILL...ROSSVILLE...RINGGOLD...LINWOOD...
  LAKEVIEW...LAFAYETTE...INDIAN SPRINGS...FORT OGLETHORPE...
  FAIRVIEW...DALTON...COHUTTA...CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA VALLEY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAtL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3470 8546 3462 8496 3498 8483 3498 8534

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	25 min
Jun 4, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	24 min
Jun 4, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	29 min
Jun 4, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	41 min
Jun 4, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	29 min
Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	26 min
Jun 4, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	21 min
Jun 4, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	27 min
Jun 4, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, White	22 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	28 min
Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon, Peach	34 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.